I think it's limiting to write down a definition of what is offensive to the Buffista community. Perhaps something along the lines of "if three stompy feet agree that you have been offensive, that's enough for us". Or something like that.
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A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
plasmo - Dec 26, 2002 7:38:24 pm PST #1462 of 10001
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billytea - Dec 26, 2002 7:42:36 pm PST #1463 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think it's limiting to write down a definition of what is offensive to the Buffista community.
Yep; that's basically why I think we should change the wording to something that invites less definitional dispute. (I don't know if I'd even bother putting in 'three stompy feet will constitute a quorum, on the grounds that it would require at least a second opinion or else a truly prodigious freak of nature'. I think the warning process is probably sufficient as is, as a procedural specification.)
amych - Dec 26, 2002 7:45:50 pm PST #1464 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Eep, we now have age 14 and under Buffistas?
Weren't both Holli and RL in about that (sub-14) age range when they first came on board?
It's a good reminder to keep on the right side of the suggested vs. explicit line in outside of Bitches, SV and the fic threads, but we've had younguns before, unless I mistake my Buffistory.
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 7:50:43 pm PST #1465 of 10001
brillig
Bitchy Fic has a warning about explicitness, but I must admit I'm a trifle nervous about under-18 eyes in there. Having Liz read (some of) my stuff would be considered a felony if she did it here in Utah. And I know she has read the NC-17 stuff. That said, I keep the more--interesting items in the threads with warnings on them.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 7:54:01 pm PST #1466 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Weren't both Holli and RL in about that (sub-14) age range when they first came on board?
You are correct in that (Holli was 12), and both seemed remarkably mature for their ages, but we also didn't own the board then.
amych - Dec 26, 2002 7:56:12 pm PST #1467 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
we also didn't own the board then.
No, we didn't -- and owning the board means legal implications that we didn't have then. I was just thinking along the lines of "don't be afraid to natter now that the chibi-lizard is around, just be aware that some threads are pornier than others."
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 8:02:36 pm PST #1468 of 10001
brillig
If chibi-lizard wanders in the labelled threads, more power to her and may she have one-tenth the cool as her older sister, and all will be well.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 8:05:42 pm PST #1469 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If chibi-lizard wanders in the labelled threads, more power to her and may she have one-tenth the cool as her older sister, and all will be well.
Plus, the only name on the paperwork is Jesse's, so the rest of us should be in the clear. ;)
Connie Neil - Dec 26, 2002 8:07:22 pm PST #1470 of 10001
brillig
t note to self, change profile name
DavidS - Dec 26, 2002 8:08:51 pm PST #1471 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Worth noting that chibi-lizard is only going on with her big sister guiding her through the threads. So she's not unchaperoned. Though Natter itself gets pretty randy from time to time.